Segue Career Guidance Program
The Segue Program empowers students to explore, find, and act on their life's path.
Segue gives students the knowledge to choose their future.
Segue helps youths help themselves,
take responsibility for where their lives are headed,
choose productive careers, and keep off life's negative paths
How can most students possibly choose a career when they don't even know their options?
Students, especially those most underprivileged, have been abandoned by a society that does not provide this most critical link in the chain of their lives. Knowledge of their options.
One-third of our high school student (some authorities say it is 40%!) do not graduate from high school. Every year, our schools are disgorging into the communities thousands of students that have little or no idea how to make it in the world. Gangs and negative paths become very inviting.
A recent Rand Corp study indicating that "each high school dropout costs society $243,000 to $388,000, and a career criminal costs $1.3 million to $1.5 million." And what of those who do graduate but are without plans for their future?
Description:
Segue mobilizes a community to show its youth the way forward. Volunteers from the workforce reinforce career path realities in students' classrooms up to 10 or more times a year for each student.
Different speakers describe a wide range of career paths and ways that students can explore those careers and prepare for them. Speaker sign-up is quick due to Segue's unique online self-scheduling.
Speakers from a community are easier for teens to hear, and accept, in a way that they often can't hear from their parents.
The speakers, through the examples of their own career paths, become living proof, multiple times per year, of how the world works, what are the rules of the game, and how it really is true that the choices students make now will effect them for many years.
History:
2003: Founded
2003/2004: established stellar Advisory Committee, including County Superintendent of Schools, school board members, teachers; developed program to fit existing realities of school environment; agreement for three month test at Ventura High
2005/2006 full year pilot at Ventura High generating outstanding measured student outcomes (for example, 75% of students report that "as a result of the speakers" they now believe that more effort now equals more options for their future, per enclosed evaluation document): redeveloped online self-scheduling system to accommodate multiple schools; initial piloting of program in multiple schools to continued positive outcomes (for example, 100% of speakers indicate on survey they want to speak again); planning for 2-3,000 students participating in 2007/2008.
2007/2008: Segue becomes available in Oxnard at Channel Islands High School. Total Segue participation exceeds 3,000 students.
2007/2008: Segue's MY FUTURE folder distributed to 3,000 students. The introduction to students on this folder state: "This folder might hold the seeds to your future. You can also add your own notes and ideas that you think about for your future. Save this folder somewhere safe and whenever you want to think about your future, or explore ideas you’ve already added to this folder, it’s there for you. Add career or college brochures that you find along the way. Add anything that interests you as an option you might want to consider for your future. You can also take a look at DoorToMyFuture.org where you can explore your future options and find answers now to questions about what are your options after you graduate from high school, such as about scholarships, colleges, apprenticeships, exploring what you’d be good at, writing resumes, having job interviews, and much more."
Contact person: Jerry Beckerman, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Address:
Web Site: http://www.SegueProgram.org
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| Last updated on March 31, 2010 |
